AMA to host 'Landing Party'

Saturday's program at the local museum will feature scale models and Q&A time with retired astronauts

4:40 PM,
Nov. 15, 2012

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The Star Press

The Academy of Model Aeronautics' National Model Aviation Museum, the world's largest, will host a free Landing Party on Saturday to celebrate the return of the 1/40-scale test models sent to accompany NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft that took the Space Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles.

Retired astronaut Robert "Hoot" Gibson and NASA's Gary Ash will both be available to answer questions and provide background information about the models.

The Landing Party will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the museum, 5151 E. Memorial Drive. The public is invited to attend, make a take-home rocket and ...